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Ww1 Memorials & Rolls Of Honour


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I thought you might like to actually see the memorials and rolls of honour that bear the names of our Great War Fallen. I would like to thank anyone who volunteered images of memorials/rolls of honour i couldn't get to, thank you. If you spot your image and want a credit please let me know. It is not a comprehensive list, i will be adding more images as i go.

If you have any images of memorials or rolls of honour that you dont see here, and you'd like to share them with us, then please do.

First off the Arundle Ex Service mens Club on City road. Although no names on the memorial, it is where the club pays its respect.

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Ecclesall All Saints

(Peter Bayliss)

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield:-

‘On the south wall of the side-chapel are eleven tablets in oak panelling containing the names of 122 men of the parish, with their regiments, who fell in the Great War. Just outside the Churchyard, fronting the main road, is a beautiful memorial cross, eighteen feet high, erected in grateful commemoration of the fallen; it was designed by Mr. Temple Moore, and cost £500. An important part which remains to be carried out is a Memorial Parish Hall.’

Personal memorial window to Stanley Fenton Smith.

(Peter Bayliss)

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The memorials held at Kelham Island Museum.

Arthur Balfour & Co.

Hatfields Ltd. Note the memorial in the backgrond of this image of the 'Bean Sundowner' car.

Samuel Osbourne & Co

Samuel Osbourne & Co.

Tyzacks.

Cammel Laird

T.W. Ward.

Sheffield Telegraph Roll of Honour. This roll is in pieces on a pallet in storage at Kelham, it is complete though.

It was originally at Kemsley House.

From the Sheffield Telegraph of 18/1/1922 -

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Law Society Hall. These are on the stairs.

I dont know if this is still there, will have to check.

It is still there. (27/1/2011)

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St James, Norton.

Also at Norton, this personal memorial plaque to Bernard Firth.

(Stuart0742)

Bernard himself.

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St Lawrence, Tinsley.

From Canon Odom's 'Memorials of Sheffield'

The War Memorial on the north wall consists of a handsome marble tablet bearing fifty-five names. Bearing the inscription:

'To the Glory of God and in grateful and honoured memory of the Tinsley men who laid down their lives for their Country in the Great War 1914-19. Erected by parishioners and friends '

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St Margarets, Jenkin road.

From Canon Odoms Memorials of Sheffield –

‘The beautiful pulpit is the War Memorial, and on it are the names of forty-two men who fell in the Great War.’

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St Marys, Handsworth.

Pre restoration.

During.

Restored.

Same names but inside the church.

Personal memorial tablet to Harold Charles Firth Jeffcock.

From Canon Odoms Memorials of Sheffield –

‘The War Memorial consists of a peal of eight bells, a chiming clock, and a tablet bearing the names of fifty-one men who fell in the Great War. The total cost was £2,150.’

The Clock.

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St Marys, Bramall Lane.

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

‘Opposite is a brass with the inscription : ‘In sacred and ever-loving memory of Laurence Whiteley M.A. Lieut. 5th Black Watch Royal Highlanders, killed at the 3rd Battle of Ypres, in his 33rd year, July 31st, 1917 – ‘Ebrolled in heaven.’ Hebrews X11,23.’

No image of this as yet.

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

‘Framed roll of honour with names of 137 members of S. Mary’s Bible Class, of whom 15 gave their lives.’

No image of this either, where is it now ?

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

‘In 1918 it was resolved to acquire a large house in Countess Road, with very convenient grounds close to the Church, at a cost of £750, the house to be adapted as a War Memorial Institute, with bowling green, &c., and later on a Memorial Hall to be erected. The first part of the scheme has been carried out at a cost of £1,800, towards which contributions in money, £1,730, and gifts of furniture £200 in value, were received. It is proposed to erect a Memorial Hall on the ground.’

Was the Memorial Hall built ?

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

‘In the ante-Church are : (1) A handsome oak frame with three panels containing 1,700 names of parishioners and members of the congregation who served in the Great War, of whom 280 laid down their lives.’

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

‘Near to this are two marble tablets, one in memory of ‘Lieut. William John Scott Rundle, D.S.O., 6th Dragoon Guards, died, aged 25 , July 30, 1901, from wounds received in action whilst serving in South Africa’; the other to ‘Lieut. Beaumont Rundle, Australian R.F.A. ,died April 15, 1917, from wounds received in action whilst serving in France.’

Both were sons of George E. Rundle, of New South Wales. These were erected by their aunt, A.M. Rundle, Kenwood, Sheffield.

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St Pauls. (once stood where the Peace Gardens are now, the memorial is now in Sheffield Cathedral, its sculpture that sat on the top of it was nicked!)

From Canon Odom’s Memorials of Sheffield;-

'At the east end of the north aisle is a side-chapel, the carved oak communion table and reredos of which were given by Mrs. Mitchell-Withers, who died October 23, 1920. The War Memorial therein consisting of beautiful figures in bronze representing Abraham and Isaac, cost £140. The pedestal on which it stands bears the names of 130 men who fell in the Great War.’

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St Leonards Lych Gate, Wortley.

The actual East Lych Gate ia a memorial to the fallen in the Great War 1914-1918, and was given by the parishioners at a cost of £329.00.

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Christ Church, Heeley.

The Roll of Honour was unveiled on 4th March 1920 by Battery Sergeant Major J.C. Raynes VC.

From Canon Odoms Memorials of Sheffield

‘The War Memorial consists of a large bronze tablet, on an oak base, on which are the names of 334 ‘men from the parish of Heeley who laid down their lives in the Great War.’ The cost was £177.

On a pillar on the north side of the nave is a brass tablet ‘To the memory of Reginald Pryce Jones, 2nd Lieut, York and Lancaster Rgt, Killed in action, Flanders, Oct. 19, 1917, aged 23 years. ‘Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori.’

(Sweet and seemly is it to die for one’s fatherland.’ – Horace.)

(SteveHB)

Other memorials to those who died of wounds are a brass cross above the communion table to Lieut. W.F. Balcher, given by his mother; and a brass alms dish, in memory of Sergeant Thomas Thompson, the gift of his mother.' (no image as yet)

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Dolphin street memorial.

From A newspaper cutting of 20/1/1919, I assume its either the Telegraph or Independent.

HONOURING THE BRAVE

Dolphin street, a more or less insignificant thoroughfare in the East End of Sheffield, has a magnificent war record, the story of which is to be handed down to future generations in a permanent form. Out of a total of number of 48 houses in the street, 55 men have fought in the Great War, and in addition, every female able to work has devoted her time to duties of national importance. Of the 55 who went as soldiers, seven have died, and one is missing. Out of the number, one (Driver Joseph Drake, R.F.A.) has secured the Military Medal for conspicuous bravery at Ypres, when he dressed the wounded during a perfect volcano of shell fire; whilst another soldier, Private T. Elkington, who obtained his ribbon, was killed just after his last leave.

To perpetuate such a wonderful record one of the residents in the street, Mrs. Bagnall, inaugurated a war memorial and roll of honour, and, with the aid of other neighbours and without the slightest assistance from outside sources, has had erected a suitable shrine with the names of those in the street who have served. The interesting ceremony of unveiling the shrine took place on Saturday afternoon, in the presence of a large gathering. Mr. W. Brooks presided, supported by Mr. B. Gregory (headmaster of the Woodbourn Road Council School), who has been closely associated with a number of the boys who participated in the war. The band of the Salvation Army was in attendance and gave selections.

Mr. Gregory said he did not think there was a street in Sheffield that had done so well as to send 55 soldiers out of 48 houses. In his 14 years experience as headmaster at Woodbourn Road, he had had some ‘rough pups’ to handle, but although they had been rough they knew how to live and how to die. They had done their duty without making a song about it.

Mr. Brooks unveiled the memorial, and the proceedings terminated with cheers for Mrs. Bagnall and others who had been associated with the movement.

This is the only 'street shrine' i've come across for Sheffield, i know there are still some still in situ, such as Hull, where there any more in Sheffield ?

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